Posts made by eobox91103

@drekkin I share your frustration. While I'd like to always thank people for sharing their content, some torrents are simply garbage. I wish people would apply some sort of "golden rule" to their uploads...meaning "only upload a torrent with content/description/images/etc. that you would want to download yourself." I don't see why anyone would want to download a 50 GB torrent called "my favourite porn" with 20 cryptically named files and one or two pictures (that aren't necessarily related to any of the files). Surprisingly, though, there are people who download stuff like that.

I don't think the solution is to sanction uploaders of garbage torrents, but perhaps there's a way of rewarding uploaders of really good ones. Some torrents are clearly the result of much care by their uploaders, with clear description of the content, including thumbnail pages for each video file (and that's very easy to do). It would be nice to have a reward for these superstar uploaders. Perhaps more use of the "thank you" button is enough.

I think the term "public" is being used two different ways in this thread:

I've had sex in bathhouses, bushes behind gay/nude beaches, and at a gay sex party. While this was with or in view of strangers, they were all willing participants (or voyeurs), and nobody's rights were violated. I'm not sure I would call this "public," but the presence of (willing) strangers has an appeal.

I've also had/seen sex in the shower rooms of gyms; this would probably be considered "public" and thus inappropriate, but on a couple of occasions it was difficult to resist. (Once at university I was seen by another student, and I stopped immediately...a few years later at a YMCA I was caught by a staff person, who joined in.)

Some guy having a wank on a street corner is definitely public and definitely inappropriate. It could easily be considered harassment as @flozen suggests above.

@citronvert said in gay porn videos atmosphere.....:

it seemed to me that the atmosphere of many videos from the North West is really different from that of the South East.

Bonjour, M. Citronvert!

If you are speaking of the different atmospheres of videos made in the États-Unis, I think the differences come from professional quality and social class/status. Here are my thoughts:

• The professional porn industry in the US is centered mostly in the south part of California, where there are beaches, mountains, but above all studio quality lighting, cameras, and money to pay actors and production staff. There is also some professional production in other parts of the country.

• Smaller studios, which could be just one person with a camera and a a light, might operate in parts of the US where costs are lower and actors are cheaper. These can be videos with "redneck" characters, defined as more rural, less educated, and without the polish or looks needed to enter the more professional porn industry. This is often found in what the US calls "the South," but is really the South East as you have said. These videos can have appeal even among upper classes/more educated people.

These difference don't apply as much to home-made videos, such as an 18-year-old guy making a video of himself se branler. Sometimes the background of his room or other location can suggest social class or economic status.

Other members of this forum might have additional ideas.

@twinkerzzz said in POWER USER clarification:

so you seem to be saying my searches will continue to display dvd-r content (vob file) and also allow me to download them even tho my 'power user' status dipped to 'user' status ? Could you confirm ?

I'm not an expert or an insider here; I was only speculating on why the "no DVD for new users" rule might be there.

But I might make a suggestion: If your ratio is in trouble, I would hold off downloading from any large torrents that you won't be able to seed back--a DVD posted a long time ago with no other leechers won't give you the opportunity to upload it back.

To pump up your ratio, I suggest two things:

1. Download a new freeleech torrent, and by "new," I mean something in the last hour. Your download won't count, but any upload will. This doesn't need to be something that you want to watch--the whole idea is to get upload credit.
2. Download a very recent torrent that has many files, and select only a few (maybe 10-15%) to download. You'll get charged for the material you download, but the tracker will send other leechers to you to get the few files that you did download. If you have a good connection and leave your computer on, you can get a share ratio of 10, 20, or higher on that torrent alone. This will help your ratio.

Good luck!

@twinkerzzz I think the logic behind not letting new or low-ratio users download DVD's was that those were large torrents (at the time), 4-7 GB each...and that could irreparably sink someone's ratio if they weren't careful.

But now, with fast connection speeds, high-resolution cameras and screens, and cheap disk storage space, it's not unusual to see torrents with 10-50 GB of content, and these aren't restricted just to power users. If the intention of the "no DVD downloads until you're settled in" rule was to prevent people from screwing up their ratio, perhaps a size-based restriction would work better in today's environment.

(There are indeed times when size matters...)

@lololulu19 said in Rude people!:

When the door closed to the restroom, a voice came from the stall.. "Dude! Where did you go!" It was the OTHER guy still in the stall! Both of them were in there together for 15 minutes!

You could have said, "I'm right here, open the stall door."

@Kekkaishi I've never responded to this sort of thing in a public toilet, although I have in gym showers/changing rooms.

As for "negative consequences"--there's the remote possibility that it might be a sting operation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal for a story about 15 years ago when a US senator got arrested for toilet cruising at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. He claims it was all a misunderstanding, blah, blah, blah...but when people checked his senate office internet server logs, they found searches earlier that day for "gay cruising Minneapolis," so the guy had this all planned out.

As an amusing side note, for several years following that incident I would frequently connect flights through that airport. The toilet where the senator was busted became quite the tourist attraction.

@asianslut Another useful tool in Windows is Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer, available at https://funk.eu/amt/ . (It passes all the virus screens as being clean, and no, I don't get a commission, because it's free.)

The interface is a bit clunky (but not hard to use), and it has the advantage that you can take a whole folder of video files, drag it into the AMT window, and it will automatically make a preview for each video file, with the same name as the video file, but with a .jpg extension.

This is really handy if you are uploading a torrent with lots of video files--it lets users preview each video and then decide what they want to download. (I wish every multi-video-file torrent would do this.) A recent torrent upload at https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=621a84ace470aa893f627acd8bc2072f2b01bc20a40d0974 seems to have used this software.

The default settings will then be applied to each video file, and that works OK for this purpose. It can be amusing, though...in the torrent above, one of the videos was very short so the preview file had only one image--a super close-up of the guy's dick head. One could do worse...

@lololulu19 Maybe some twink with a huge cock will come up behind you, look at the screen, start rubbing himself....

Indeed, people can often be disrespectful of others' privacy. A few times in a situation like this I have lowered the laptop screen and said, in a loud voice, "do you like what you're seeing on my computer? Can I look at yours?" This can cause well-deserved embarrassment to the eavesdropper.

Sitting in a corner facing into the room helps, although that might not always be an option. I now have a film cover that goes over my laptop screen that prevents people from seeing what's on the screen, and it's been helpful...search for "laptop privacy screen" on Amazon or the like. They're about $20 US as I recall.

Sorry to hear about your fire. I hope things get back to normal for you soon.

@palotes And here's more: I got curious and downloaded all four days of "The Castle." Each day has some combination of wanking, sucking, and/or rimming; there's no fucking. There's a copyright date of 2007, and the videos are a bit fuzzy, with 512*288 resolution.

But, it would have been fun to be there

@flozen By jove, I think you've got it. From the descriptions on those sites, it sounds likely. The 1984 timeframe is appropriate, as the clip appears to have been shot on film. And, in the few frontal scenes, the guys all have a full bush.

I'll snoop around a bit more, and perhaps buy the dvd if I get curious.

Thanks for you insight!

Does anyone recognise this: I found a clip on a tube site that opened with a title slide saying "Tu Solo:"

Then, a couple of college-age guys strip naked (except for hat, shoes, and cape), and do a short bullfighting scene (nobody gets hurt):

The film then cuts to what looks like a campers' dormitory--this scene lasts about a half a minute, and I think the guys are speaking Castilian:

The clip I have ends at that point, but I have a hunch that the there's more, and probably a good dose of sex.

Any ideas? I've tried searching, but the word "solo" comes up with billions of hits that aren't relevant.

Thanks in advance!

@palotes Yep, it's from "The Castle," and it's day four.

@vbear2 said in Tracker giving response code 404 (Not Found):

I looked further and saw that I was getting this from everything from the site, including new items that I had just downloaded.

It might be something as simple as not being logged in, in which case you won't be able to find a page behind the log-in wall. The forum and the torrent listings seem to have different log-in clocks, and I find that if I log in and then back up the browser, I'm all set.

I think it's from the now-defunct Straight College Men (2SCM) studio, from a series called "The Castle." There are four videos in that series, all part of this torrent: https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=a2ea04e94ba5be5b3f627acd8bc2072f2392e8c4b5d7daa6 . The four parts total about 1 GB, and there are seven seeders at the moment, so you should be able to get it. I don't know which of the four days the scene you linked comes from.

Bear in mind that this material was produced 15-20 years ago, so don't expect super high quality.

@john32123666 One recent torrent (https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=621a84ace470aa893f627acd8bc2072f2b01bc20a40d0974) had 11 screen grabs, and then a 12th image with technical information about the files in the torrent:
I found this very helpful...and in this case I don't think it would count as spamming.

@georgeval820 said in Difficult to Maintain Ratio - Becoming An Endless Chore:

Also I don't come on the forums anymore since they deleted the requests section which was the only thing I ever came to the forums for.

I feel you pain. When the forums did an unnecessary "redesign" a while back, they also lost several topics. For example, there used to be a Voyeur topic that I enjoyed very much, but it was tossed out.

@georgeval820 Maintaining a healthy ratio can be daunting, but it's necessary to keep a site like this functioning. You've probably seen a number of hints on how to help this, such as downloading freeleech torrents, having your system on 24/7, etc. If your disk space is filling up, you can delete older freeleech material that you don't want to keep. Once a torrent is a couple of weeks old, it won't get many seeders. (Sometimes a user will search/find an old torrent and download it...and if you're the only seeder, you'll do very well. But this is the exception rather than the rule.)

Another technique that seems to work especially well is to download a new torrent with many files, and only select about 10-20% of the total volume to be downloaded. If you do this soon after the torrent appears, you'll seed back that material very quickly and your effective ratio for that torrent will be quite high.
Even if it's not stuff that you want, this can be a big boost to your ratio. As an example, one week ago a torrent was posted that had multiple movie files totaling 124 GB. I selected just one to download (1.2 GB), and my ratio for that torrent alone is now 18.

If you do try this technique, don't do it with torrents that are likely to get taken down for DMCA reasons, as you could download material and then not be able to seed it back. I won't mention studio names here, but you probably have an idea of who they are.

@john32123666 Just tried it on a new torrent I uploaded, and it works like a charm. You are Hero of the Day.

@john32123666 Thanks very much. The torrent in question is now happily seeding away, but I'll try this next time.